Intuitive

Richard P. Feynman once said that doing elementary particle physics is a lot like banging two fine Swiss watches against each other and trying to figure out their workings by examining the debris. That was the challenge.

From My Life As A Quant by Emanuel Derman

Recommended Books:

• A Zeptospace Odyssey: A Journey Into the Physics of the LHC by Gian Francesco Giudice
• The Second Creation by Crease, Mann
• Deep Down Things by Schumm
• The Particle Odyssey by Close
• Reminiscences: A Journey through Particle Physics by Adrian Melissinos

Concrete

• http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~mjohn/notes/BasicsLectures.pdf

Recommended Textbooks:

• Introduction to Elementary Particles by D. Griffith
• An Introductory Course of Particle Physics by P. Pal
• Quarks & Leptons by Halzen, Martin

Abstract

Why is it interesting?

See https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/particle-physics-why-do-it-and-why-do-it-that-way/